The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-07-06
rHr NEW HARD WOOD INpusTRY.
An Enterprise That VIII Prove Of Benent
to the Northwest.

An Enterprise That VIII Prove OF Benent
to the Northwest.
The Mississippi Valley Lanaberz'dn has
thoughtful and original article upon change
which is rapidly coming over one OF the I'M
portant industries of the Northwest In the
past, whenever reference was made to the
Northwestern lumber interest," it was the
pine interest alone that was thought of. Fhe
great pine forests of Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota furnished a material for
which there was universal demand; the
preparation of this lumber for market m
volved only the application OF the ruder
forms of labor. 1t is the virgin industry OF
newly settled communities. But the steady
exhausting of the supply by each year
lumber operations and the growth OF large
communities with diversified wants, nave
changed the situation. 1t becomes obvious
that our lumber industry in the future Will
be that form in which the preparation OF
hard wood for their manifold uses will have
first place.
The Lstm5eym0n calls attention to the
fact that systematic efforts have Of late been
made both in st. Paul and Minneapolis TO
secure the location in these cities OF new
| manufacturing concerns. Remarkable sue
cess has crowned the attempt. Within the
year dozen or more very extensive con-
Germs have placed themselves in the two
cities, and more than as many more have
completed their arrangements and are on
their way hither. Large railway shops are
TO be built Immediately by the Wisconsin
Central in st. Paul, and the Sault road in
Minneapolis In nearly all the cases these
coming industries require large supply Of
hard wood as part of their raw material.
The demand for this will be great and in
creasing. The supply is ready at hand.
The Llimbe1maaa states the situation as fol-
lows:
although all the forest region of Min
nesota is plentifully sprinkled with oak,
maple, ash, ironwood, elm, Eastwood, beech
and other hard woods, there is scarcely
saw-mill worthy of the name in the State
converting the timber into lumber More
has been done in Wisconsin, and there has
been, during the past year, surprising
increase in the number of hardwood logs
got to the numerous railroad mills, but the
supply has not kept pace with the demand,
and the rather unusual spectacle has been
witnessed of oak lumber, which was bought
readily year ago for SIS per thousand,
bringing nov S25 and $50. How rise like
that would delight some ofthe manufacturers
of pine, who are given to desperately en-
deavoring to raise the list dollarP
Not only in the new factories going up,
but in the interior work of the thousands of
residences added annually to each of these
cities, there is found steadily de
mand for the varieties of hard wood. And
yet" says the LumbernaGn, there is in
neither city anything like a complete and
well equipped yard" The time is near at
hand when our great and valuable forest re-
sources are about to be utilized. Just as iron
ore was left lying in Wisconsin hills for de-
cades because the time for mining It had not
come, so the hard woods of the Northwest
have stood in full view Of all, awaiting the
time when the development of the country
should make demand upon them. That
time has now arrived, and with it new era
in the lumber industry of the Northwest
81. Paul Pioneer Press.